Red Wings Lost

Famous quotes containing the words red, wings and/or lost:

    “Oh we drunk his “Hale” in the good red wine
    When we last made company,
    No capon priest was the Goodly Fere
    But a man o’ men was he.”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

    “And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly
    away, and be at rest.”
    —Bible: Hebrew Psalm LV (l. LV, 6)

    “Being young you have not known
    The fool’s triumph, nor yet
    Love lost as soon as won,
    Nor the best labourer dead
    And all the sheaves to bind.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)